JJ Abrams may be very, very busy planning out the future of Star Wars on screen, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to stop developing other projects. It’s been revealed, via TheWrap, that Abrams and his production house, Bad Robot, are putting together a project based on an unproduced script that Twilight Zone legend Rod Serling wrote shortly before his death in 1975.
Unfortunately there are no details on the plot of The Stops Along The Way, but the plan is apparently to turn the script into a TV mini-series.
Serlings’ widow, Carol, commented to Variety, “Im terribly, wonderfully excited that J.J. is interested and going to do it. It was one of my husbands favorite pieces. He thought it had great potential.
She also adds that the script involves, “a little bit of fantasy, a little bit of imagination and that it “takes place over a long period of time.
It’s not too much of a surprising move for Abrams, who’s often cited Serling’s Twilight Zone as a seminal influence. There’s no news on when it might go into production.